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To put that into perspective: the average individual can tolerate up to eight hours of sound at 85 db - think busy city traffic - before suffering hearing damage. "For every 5 db over 85 db, the exposure time before irreversible damage gets cut in half," says Beth Orliss, an audiologist in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Custom-Made Headphones: Listen Up Before It's Too Late | 4/26/2010 | See Source »

"Ears are like fingerprints - everyone's are different," he says. If comfort isn't reason enough to persuade you to make the switch, then consider this: keep cranking up the volume on your crappy earbuds, and your next fitting could be for a hearing aid.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Custom-Made Headphones: Listen Up Before It's Too Late | 4/26/2010 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Hurd has turned strategist. His goal? To integrate HP's operations so fully that its customers could fulfill all their printing, computing, connectivity and tech-service needs in one stop. HP has beefed up its 20,000-strong sales force and targeted its attention on the top 2,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HP vs. Everybody | 4/26/2010 | See Source »

"I'm going to ask you to smell your armpits," Sue Sylvester informs two misbehaving cheerleaders. "That's the smell of failure, and it's stinking up my office." Sylvester, the cheerleading coach on Fox's smash teen-musical show, Glee, is a tyrant in a tracksuit: she claims to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best in Show | 4/26/2010 | See Source »

Over lunch at a Manhattan hotel shortly before Glee's April 13 return from a four-month hiatus, Lynch characterizes the show's student singers, without irony, as "a group that just wants to make a joyful noise." She tears up recalling her own high school choir experience. She bursts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best in Show | 4/26/2010 | See Source »

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